This book makes sense out of the complext world of symptoms. It does this by revealing how a doctor thinks when faced with patients telling them their stories, that is, by ranking the possible diagnosis in terms of probability. For the first time in a popular medical guide, all the symptoms one might reasonably experience are put into perspective.

Author Biography

In practice since 1980, Dr. Apple earned his medical degree at Birmingham University. He was chairman of tghe Medical Writers Group of the Society of Authors from 2005 to 2006, and has written several best-selling medical guides and many newspaper and magazine articles. Payne-James, Forensic Physician, London and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Central Middlesex Hospital. Robin Fox is University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University. Among his best known works are "The Imperial Animal "(with Lionel Tiger); "Kinship and Marriage; The Red Lamp of Incest; The Violent Imagination; The Search for Society "and "Encounter With Anthropology."